Patient Safety

Drug Safety Update
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is an executive agency of the Department of Health. Click here to read the monthly electronic bulletin for health professionals on current issues relating to drug safety.

Knowledge Management

Creating a conversation: insights from the development of a decision aid
VM Montori, M Breslin, M Maleska, AJ Weymiller
PLoS Medicine, 2007, 4(8), e233
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Evidence Based Practice

How evidence-based are the recommendations in evidence-based guidelines?
FA McAlister, S van Diepen, RS Padwal, JA Johnson, SR Majumdar
PLoS Medicine, 2007, 4(8), e250
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Commissioning

Payment by Results in 2008-09
The Department of Health has published this update on work to prepare the tariff for 2008-09. Click here to read more.

Payment by Results: stroke and transient ischaemic attack services
The Department of Health has produced this best practice guide, explaining payment by results for people involved in the provision and commissioning of stroke and transient ischaemic attach services. Click here to read more.

Technology

Evidence in the palm of your hand: development of an outcomes-focused knowledge translation intervention
DM Doran, J Mylopoulos, A Kushniruk, L Nagle, B Laurie-Shaw, S Sidani, AE Tourangeau, N Lefebre, C Reid-Haughian, JR Carryer, LA Cranley, G McArthur
Worldviews On Evidence-Based Nursing, 2007, 4(2), pp69-77

Research

Systematic reviews don’t last for ever
eBMJ, 2007, 335(7612), pp178

Model for a single ethical and scientific review of multicentre research in New South Wales
HE Fraser, AE Martlew, DJ Frew
Medical Journal of Australia, 2007, 187(1), pp7-9
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Public Health

We are all public health
KM Alpi
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2007, 95(3), pp229-231
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Introduction: public health information outreach
KW Cogdill
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2007, 95(3), pp290-292
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